This site will be taken down March 31st, 2026.

This was not an easy decision to make. For the last couple years, I have been struggling to find motivation for this site and to keep up with basic maintenance and security updates. With the rise of AI and more sophisticated tools, the usefulness of sites like this is questionable and traffic has nose-dived. I just don't have it in me to keep doing this. Thank you all for 10 years of support!

Zach

闇とは光がないことです。

Sentence Analyzer

ない こと です

English Translation

Darkness is the absence of light.

Furigana

(やみ)とは(ひかり)がないことです。

Romanji

Yami to wa hikari ga nai koto desu.

Words

(やみ)
darkness; the dark; dark; bewilderment; despair; hopelessness; black-marketeering; shady; illegal; under-the-table
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if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)
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topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
(ひかり)
light
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indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
無い (ない)
nonexistent; not being (there); unpossessed; unowned; not had; unique; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility; not ...; to not be...; to have not ...
(こと、こん)
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as
です (です)
be; is

Kanji

Readings: アン、 オン、 やみ、 くら.い
Meanings: get dark, gloom, disorder
Readings: コウ、 ひか.る、 ひかり
Meanings: ray, light